CPI

6.2% in February

Supply chain bottlenecks the main cause

Driven by rising fuel costs

Will pressure on costs ease?

At least 2.5% per annum

5.5% in January

As we look ahead to the rest of 2022 the biggest question for investors around the world will continue to be around inflation.

In a further sign inflation is becoming an endemic issue, the US consumer price index hit 7.5% in January - its highest level since 1982.

In the faintly surreal early days of 2020, as shops emptied of essential goods, it must be said that Wodehouse’s prognosis came true

By the time the Bank of England's interest-rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) announces its latest UK base rate decision on Thursday, seven weeks will have elapsed since they elected to nudge the country's borrowing costs up from near-zero to...